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- DirectorRichard BoleslawskiCharles BrabinStarsJohn BarrymoreEthel BarrymoreLionel BarrymoreA prince plots to kill the mad monk Rasputin for the good of the czar, the czarina and Russia.
- DirectorGene FeldmanStarsRock BrynnerVictoria BrynnerJohn FrankenheimerThere is only one Yul Brynner. No other actor had his looks, his range of talents, his energy, and his capacity to draw others into the spell of his charm. A true sophisticate of deliberately mysterious origins, Yul Brynner was at home in a wide variety of languages and social environments.
- DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsNikolay CherkasovLyudmila TselikovskayaSerafima BirmanDuring the early part of his reign, Ivan the Terrible faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people.
- DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsNikolay CherkasovSerafima BirmanPavel KadochnikovAs Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate their Tsar.
- DirectorAndrzej ZulawskiStarsRuggero RaimondiKenneth RiegelBernard LefortThe film is based on the musical recording of the famous opera by Modest Mussorgsky about the tragic events surrounding the ruling of the Russian tsar Boris in the early 17th century. The recording was actually made two years before the filming with the participation of the Washington Symphony Orchestra (conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich) and several opera stars (the part of Marina is sung by Galina Vishnevskaya). Zulawski made the film just as we would be watching the theatrical performance. Then we are going through the sets and, finally, we notice the film crew. The director deliberately filled the picture with a plenty of anachronisms making the implications on the Soviet history and the other dictatorships of the 20th century.
- DirectorVsevolod PudovkinStarsAleksei DikijEvgeniy SamoylovVladimir VladislavskiyAdmiral Pavel Nakhimov, one of the most acclaimed admirals in Russian history, fights the Turkish fleet during the Crimean War of 1853.
- DirectorPaul CzinnerAlexander KordaStarsDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Elisabeth BergnerFlora RobsonStraightforward biography of the Russian Empress, up to her assumption of the throne.
- DirectorOscar ApfelStarsAurora MardiganianIrving CummingsAnna Q. NilssonThe story about the Armenian Genocide based on the account of survivor Aurora Mardiganian.
- DirectorMikhail DollerVsevolod PudovkinStarsNikolay P. CherkasovApollon YachnitskiyMikhail AstangovPrimarily a biographical documentary about the military career of Alexander Vasilvich Suvorov, who was Field Marshal of the armies of Catherine the Great and Czar Paul I. After many military successes during the reign of Catherine, General Suvorov broke with her successor, Paul I, the Mad Emperor, over questions regarding army policy. He went into retirement and wrote "The Science of Victory," containing maxims such as "Swiftness of movement accompanies victory," and "the real general is he who defeats the enemy before reaching him." The czar recalled Suvorov to become the leader of the joint armies of Rissia and Austria against Napoleon.
- 1954–199730mApproved6.8 (63)TV EpisodeDirectorCharles BartonStarsGrant WilliamsRex HillLeon AskinThe story of young Tchaikovsky through the premiere of his "Sleeping Beauty" ballet.
- DirectorBenjamin GlazerStarsFrank SundströmAudrey LongCedric HardwickeThe portrait of Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky focuses on his failed love affair.
- StarsMaximilian SchellVanessa RedgraveOmar SharifBiopic of Peter I, Czar of Russia, from childhood in 1682 to the Great Northern War against Sweden during the 1700s.
- DirectorMarvin J. ChomskyJohn GoldsmithStarsCatherine Zeta-JonesPaul McGannIan RichardsonTrapped in a loveless arranged marriage to the immature future Czar, a young German Princess proves a skillful political infighter and rises to become Catherine the Great.
- DirectorPyotr ChardyninVasili GoncharovStarsSofya GoslavskayaPavel KnorrVasili StepanovA significant part of the 1912 production "A Life for the Tsar" was used in this film.
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsAnatoliy SolonitsynIvan LapikovNikolay GrinkoThe life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsVanessa RedgraveChristopher PlummerFranco NeroA German princess is chosen to marry the heir to the Russian Throne, but faces plots and intrigues against her.
- DirectorMichael BeckelhimerStarsEkaterina AsmusRussians often declare 'Pushkin is our everything.' After 200 years of regime changes and political upheavals, the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin remains Russian Number One, the common thread that unites Russians of all political stripes. He's been a part of every national debate since his friends revolted against Tsar Nicholas in 1825. Russians on all sides of today's burning issues still use Pushkin as a defender of their cause. Front-page stories about anti-Kremlin demonstrations, anti-American nationalist propaganda, and the rise of the Orthodox Church often reference Pushkin. How did Pushkin become 'everything' to Russians? Director Michael Beckelhimer, a life-long Russophile and Russian expert, travels through Russia to understand how Pushkin attained mythic status, and how he helps Russians today.
- DirectorSonja VesterholtStarsVadim ZnamenovLydia LevchenkoBent JensenPortrait of Grand Duchess Olga Romanov (1882-1960), youngest daughter of Czarina Maria Fyodorovna and the Russian Czar Aleksandr III. Olga was the Russia's last Grand Duchess.